Art Quote by Henri Matisse

Truth and reality in art begin at the point where the artist ceases to understand what he is doing and capable of doing -…

— Henri Matisse

Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense…

— Henri Matisse

In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end.

— William Whewell

The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real.

— Herbert Marcuse

The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks…

— Anonymous

Art breaks open a dimension inaccessible to other experience, a dimension in which human beings, nature, and things no longer stand under the law…

— Herbert Marcuse

Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Since there is no such thing as absolute rightness and truth, we always pursue the artificial, leading, human truth. We judge and make a…

— Gerhard Richter

True art lies in a reality that is felt.

— Odilon Redon

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is…

— Pablo Picasso

The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.

— Denis Donoghue

Artistic truth is for me literally the highest truth: art may seize the essence of persons and movements no less truly, and certainly far…

— Israel Zangwill